Name: Kocuria marina Kim et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.ri’na. L. fem. adj. marina, of the sea

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … ma-RI-na, feminine

Type strain: CCUG 51442; DSM 16420; JCM 13363; KCTC 9943; KMM 3905

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16S rRNA gene: MT758105 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kim SB, Nedashkovskaya OI, Mikhailov VV, Han SK, Kim KO, Rhee MS, Bae KS. Kocuria marina sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1617-1620. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:3-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Ghodhbane-Gtari et al. 2024 Ghodhbane-Gtari F, Haj Nasr MA, Gatri R, Gtari M. Taxonomic note on Kocuria and Rothia: taxogenomic insights for addressing misidentifications and proposing new combinations and new subspecies. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2024; 74:0. 🇹🇳 Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 74, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6619.

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 33 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of the species itself.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Kocuria marina subsp. indica (Dastager et al. 2014) Ghodhbane-Gtari et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Kocuria marina subsp. marina (Kim et al. 2004) Ghodhbane-Gtari et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym of its species

Parent taxon: Kocuria Stackebrandt et al. 1995

Assigned by: Kim SB, Nedashkovskaya OI, Mikhailov VV, Han SK, Kim KO, Rhee MS, Bae KS. Kocuria marina sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1617-1620. 🇰🇷

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Record number: 777194